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Oh my word…

December 15th, 2009 | 6 Comments

Okay, several months ago, I discovered Big Fish Games and I do love their “hidden object” games but this one literally made my jaw drop when I ran across an article about it:

Big Fish Games is launching a game aimed at women in a partnership with romance novel empire Harlequin Enterprises.

The game from Seattle-based Big Fish Games is Harlequin Presents: Hidden Object of Desire. It is a “hidden object” game, a popular casual game genre where users can find lots of treasures or secrets just by clicking on the landscape of a game. Of course, the game has a romantic storyline.

The game is inspired by The Royal House of Karedes, a series of Harlequin books. It features Allie, a reporter on assignment covering the 30th birthday of the Prince of Aristo. Upon her arrival in the Kingdom of Adamas with her photographer, Allie has to unravel a mystery by finding hidden objects and solving puzzles.

via Big Fish Games releases Harlequin romance game | VentureBeat.

Let’s just say I’m still recovering from the shock — but seriously tempted at the same time. Purely out of curiosity, of course. Ahem. ;-)

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  • http://racyromancereviews.com JEssica

    so does she end up with the Prince? what makes it a HQN? You will have to test this out for all of us.

  • http://bevsbooks.com Bev(BB)

    I suspect she (you) only ends up with the Prince if you solve the puzzles. And as for what makes it a HQN, it’s all in the name. Well as far as I can see. :D

    Check out the graphics, though, they’re pretty neat and very evocative of Harlequin Presents.

    I showed the article to my son when I found it because he likes their hidden object games, too, and he immediately asked two questions – “Do I even want to know what they hid on this one?” and “Should we add this to your Christmas list?”

    ;-)

  • http://www.thegalaxyexpress.net/ Heather Massey

    Wow, that’s pretty cool–in a campy cool way! I agree, the art’s not bad. I’m tempted to download the free trial, but an actual book is calling to me right now.

    The only problem I can see is that there doesn’t seem to be any finishing moves…oh, wait, that’s Mortal Kombat.

    Thanks for the link. I should use this the next time I bring up SFR and videogames/interactive SFR in a post. This endeavor is very inventive, especially for a mega corporation like Harlequin. It would be exciting to see romance publishers do more stuff like this, and I sincerely hope this investment pays off.

    Interesting that in the past few years, we’ve seen romance novels spun off into graphic novels and now video games. Huge potential to penetrate venues like Comic-Con with fare like this. Oh, that would be cool!

  • http://bevsbooks.com Bev(BB)

    The only problem I can see is that there doesn’t seem to be any finishing moves…oh, wait, that’s Mortal Kombat.

    LOL. Methinks someone has played way to many fight games in her life. :D I will say that these hidden object games are great memory enhancers, which are fantastic for those of us, um, approaching the prime of our lives, shall we say. ;-)

    Hey, they’re a flat out challenge to learn, to tell the truth.

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